Comparative Policy Agendas
Title | Comparative Policy Agendas PDF eBook |
Author | Frank R. Baumgartner |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 424 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0198835337 |
This book summarizes recent advances in the work on agenda-setting in a comparative perspective. The book first presents and explains the data-gathering effort undertaken within the Comparative Agendas Project over the past ten years. Individual country chapters then present the research undertaken within the many national projects. The third section illustrates the possibilities and directions for new research in comparative public policy using the data presented in this book. All the data used and discussed in the book is moreover publicly available. The book represents a significant contribution to the study of comparative public policy. By introducing a unified research infrastructure it opens up new possibilities for both empirical and theoretical research in this area.
Comparative Studies of Policy Agendas
Title | Comparative Studies of Policy Agendas PDF eBook |
Author | Frank R. Baumgartner |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 214 |
Release | 2013-09-13 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 131799695X |
Previously published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy, this book draws on the insights of the existing literature on agenda setting and policy changes to explore the dynamics of attention allocation and its consequences. Attention is a crucial variable in understanding modern politics. Shifts in attention have dramatic consequences for both politics and policy decisions. This volume includes case studies of nine different political systems including the US, Canada, several European systems, and the EU itself. It asks the following questions: Which are the dynamics of agenda-setting in the EU? Which role do political parties play in attention allocation? What are the cross national differences in attention to health care? What role does science and expertise play in attention-allocation? What are the effects of political institutions? Comparative Studies of Policy Agendas will be of interest to students and scholars of policy analysis and public policy.
Policy Agendas in Australia
Title | Policy Agendas in Australia PDF eBook |
Author | Keith Dowding |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 265 |
Release | 2016-11-04 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 3319408054 |
This book contributes to and expands on the major international Comparative Policy Agendas Project. It sets the project in context, and provides a comprehensive assessment of the changing policy agenda in Australia over a forty-year period, using a unique systematic dataset of governor-general speeches, legislation and parliamentary questions, and then mapping these on to media coverage and what the public believes (according to poll evidence) government should be concentrating upon. The book answers some important questions in political science: what are the most important legislative priorities for government over time? Does the government follow talk with action? Does government attend to the issues the public identifies as most important? And how does media attention follow the policy agenda? The authors deploy their unique dataset to provide a new and exciting perspective on the nature of Australian public policy and the Comparative Policy Agendas Project more broadly.
Comparative Policy Agendas
Title | Comparative Policy Agendas PDF eBook |
Author | Frank R. Baumgartner |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 432 |
Release | 2019-03-14 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0192572229 |
This book summarizes recent advances in the work on agenda-setting in a comparative perspective. The book first presents and explains the data-gathering effort undertaken within the Comparative Agendas Project over the past ten years. Individual country chapters then present the research undertaken within the many national projects. The third section illustrates the possibilities and directions for new research in comparative public policy using the data presented in this book. All the data used and discussed in the book is moreover publicly available. The book represents a significant contribution to the study of comparative public policy. By introducing a unified research infrastructure it opens up new possibilities for both empirical and theoretical research in this area.
Comparative studies of policy agendas
Title | Comparative studies of policy agendas PDF eBook |
Author | Frank R. Baumgartner |
Publisher | |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Comparative government |
ISBN |
Policy Agendas in Autocracy, and Hybrid Regimes
Title | Policy Agendas in Autocracy, and Hybrid Regimes PDF eBook |
Author | Miklós Sebők |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2021-06-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 3030732231 |
Over the past thirty years the comparative study of policy agendas under the aegis of the Comparative Agendas Project (CAP) has become one of the fastest growing sub-field in policy research. Yet, similarly to policy studies in general, most of the agenda-setting literature focuses on well-established democracies. This edited volume offers a ground-breaking analysis of a hitherto less examined topic in comparative politics: the dynamics of policy agendas in Socialist autocracy and in hybrid regimes. We propose that policymaking in authoritarian and illiberal regimes is different from the practices of democracies which we analyse based on a unique historical policy agendas database built by the Hungarian CAP team at the Centre for Social Sciences in Budapest. We find that punctuated equilibrium theory offers a good description of policy dynamics regardless of policy regimes, yet punctuations are more pronounced in autocratic and illiberal settings. These regime types also share a tendency towards centralization, a less efficient use of public information and a suppression of democratic participation in the policy process. This book may be of interest to scholars and students of policy studies, agenda-setting and the politics of authoritarianism.
Handbook of Public Policy Agenda Setting
Title | Handbook of Public Policy Agenda Setting PDF eBook |
Author | Nikolaos Zahariadis |
Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing |
Pages | 513 |
Release | 2016-09-28 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1784715921 |
Setting the agenda on agenda setting, this Handbook explores how and why private matters become public issues and occasionally government priorities. It provides a comprehensive overview and analysis of the perspectives, individuals, and institutions involved in setting the government’s agenda at subnational, national, and international levels. Drawing on contributions from leading academics across the world, this Handbook is split into five distinct parts. Part one sets public policy agenda setting in its historical context, devoting chapters to more in-depth studies of the main individual scholars and their works. Part two offers an extensive examination of the theoretical development, whilst part three provides a comprehensive look at the various institutional dimensions. Part four reviews the literature on sub-national, national and international governance levels. Finally, part five offers innovative coverage on agenda setting during crises.